Except as otherwise
provided in this section, no voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting
compartment or use a voting machine more than ten minutes
when all the voting compartments or machines are in use and voters are waiting
to occupy them. The ten-minute time limit shall not apply to any person
who requires the use of a disabled-accessible voting machine as required
under the "Help America Vote Act of 2002," 116
Stat. 1704, 42 U.S.C. 15481.

Except as otherwise provided by section 3505.24 of the
Revised Code, no voter shall occupy a voting compartment or machine with
another person or speak to anyone, nor shall anyone speak to the voter, while
the voter is in a voting compartment or machine.

In precincts that do not use
voting machines the following procedure shall be followed:

If a voter tears, soils,
defaces, or erroneously marks a ballot the voter may return it to the precinct
election officials and a second ballot shall be issued to the voter. Before
returning a torn, soiled, defaced, or erroneously marked ballot, the voter
shall fold it so as to conceal any marks the voter made upon it, but the voter
shall not remove Stub A therefrom. If the voter tears, soils, defaces, or
erroneously marks such second ballot, the voter may return it to the precinct
election officials, and a third ballot shall be issued to the voter. In no case
shall more than three ballots be issued to a voter. Upon receiving a returned
torn, soiled, defaced, or erroneously marked ballot the precinct election
officials shall detach Stub A therefrom, write "Defaced" on the back of such
ballot, and place the stub and the ballot in the separate containers provided
therefor.

No elector shall leave the
polling place until the elector returns to the precinct election officials
every ballot issued to the elector with Stub A on each ballot attached thereto,
regardless of whether the elector has or has not placed any marks upon the
ballot.

Before leaving the voting
compartment, the voter shall fold each ballot marked by the voter so that no
part of the face of the ballot is visible, and so that the printing thereon
indicating the kind of ballot it is and the facsimile signatures of the members
of the board of elections are visible. The voter shall then leave the voting
compartment, deliver the voter's ballots, and state the voter's name to the
precinct
election official having charge of the ballot box, who shall
announce the name, detach Stub A from each ballot, and announce the number on
the stubs. The precinct election officials in charge of the poll
lists or poll books shall check to ascertain whether the number so announced is
the number on Stub B of the ballots issued to such voter, and if no discrepancy
appears to exist, the precinct election official in charge of the ballot
box
shall, in the presence of the voter, deposit each such ballot in the
ballot box and shall place Stub A
from each ballot in the container provided therefor. The voter shall then
immediately leave the polling place.

No ballot delivered by a
voter to the precinct election official in charge of the ballot
box
with Stub A detached therefrom, and only ballots provided in accordance with
Title XXXV of the Revised Code, shall be voted or deposited in the ballot
box.

In marking a presidential
ballot, the voter shall record the vote in the manner provided on the ballot
next to the names of the candidates for the offices of president and
vice-president. Such ballot shall be considered and counted as a vote for each
of the candidates for election as presidential elector whose names were
certified to the secretary of state by the political party of such nominees for
president and vice-president.

In marking an office type
ballot or nonpartisan ballot, the voter shall record the vote in the manner
provided on the ballot next to the name of each candidate for whom the voter
desires to vote.

In marking a primary
election ballot, the voter shall record the vote in the manner provided on the
ballot next to the name of each candidate for whom the voter desires to vote.
If the voter desires to vote for the nomination of a person whose name is not
printed on the primary election ballot, the voter may do so by writing such
person's name on the ballot in the proper place provided for such
purpose.

In marking a questions and
issues ballot, the voter shall record the vote in the manner provided on the
ballot at the left or at the right of "YES" or "NO" or other words of similar
import which are printed on the ballot to enable the voter to indicate how the
voter votes in connection with each question or issue upon which the voter
desires to vote.

In marking any ballot on
which a blank space has been provided wherein an elector may write in the name
of a person for whom the elector desires to vote, the elector shall write such
person's name in such blank space and on no other place on the ballot. Unless
specific provision is made by statute, no blank space shall be provided on a
ballot for write-in votes, and any names written on a ballot other than in a
blank space provided therefor shall not be counted or recorded.

Amended by 129th General AssemblyFile No.40, HB 194, §1 Made subject to referendum in the Nov. 6, 2012 election. The version of this section thus amended was repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.105, SB 295, §1, eff. 8/15/2012.